Internetless

Click, hover, scroll, surf, swipe and read.

Automaton:

Is that my true identity?

Is it a pastime or a need?

Am I undone?

Is that new selfie really me?

What if I lost my connection?
What if I failed to like, comment, or post?

Would I succumb to dejection?

Would I be lost? Would I give up the ghost?

What if it happened? Would I evanesce

If I were suddenly internetless?

Download me, save me, edit me:

Does that compute?

Am I a cool collage of pics?

Have I been brainwashed? Do I need

A soul reboot,

Or another mind-numbing fix?

What if I lost my connection?
What if I failed to like, comment, or post?

Would I succumb to dejection?

Would I be lost? Would I give up the ghost?

What if it happened? Would I evanesce

If I were suddenly internetless?

Am I human or machine?

Do I live inside a screen?

If I turn it off will I

Fall apart and start to die?

Or will I discover all I've been missing?

What if I lost my connection?
What if I failed to like, comment, or post?

Would I succumb to dejection?

Would I be lost? Would I give up the ghost?

What if it happened? Would I evanesce

If I were suddenly internetless?

© 2024 David Acosta